volute
noun
a spiral or twisted formation or object.
voluted
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a word derived from
volute.
Example Sentences
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The thirteenth century shaped those low and stunted pillars, whose capitals are crowned with water-lilies, water-parsley, foliage with large leaves, voluted with crochets and turned in the form of a crosier.
From En Route by J.-K. (Joris-Karl) Huysmans
In the western apse, the pilasters are replaced by tall detached Doric columns, and the Ionic pilasters above by buttresses which grow out of voluted curves.
From Portuguese Architecture by Walter Crum Watson
The treasury of the Cnidians at Delphi was Ionic, judging by the carved ornament enriching the cornice and architraves, and in the Naxian votive column we have another early example of an early voluted capital.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
The pediment has a simple cornice around it, and the angles are finished by voluted pilasters without a base, but with Ionic capitals, which have an extraordinary effect.
From The Idler in France by Marguerite, Countess of Blessington
She took him into the parlour, where he was set down among strange voluted foreign shells with a pink flush within the wide mouth of every one of them.
From The Lilac Sunbonnet by S. R. (Samuel Rutherford) Crockett
